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The goal of the study is to evaluate the targeting of the Bolsa Família Programme and its impacts on the reduction of poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios - PNAD) and...
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The goal of the study is to evaluate the targeting of the Bolsa Família Programme and its impacts on the reduction of poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios - PNAD) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052932
Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616431
2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … 2018 to document how the mid-decade economic recession reversed the trend of pro-poor growth that dated back to the early … behind this reversal of fortune. We find that the effects of the recession on the labor market explain a lot of the recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616508
2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … 2018 to document how the mid-decade economic recession reversed the trend of pro-poor growth that dated back to the early … behind this reversal of fortune. We find that the effects of the recession on the labor market explain a lot of the recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308580
Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156486
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary transfers to and from the Brazilian State. Among the transfers from the State are wages of public workers, pensions and social assistance; the transfers to the State are direct taxes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330898
Owner-occupied housing and public infrastructure services are a relevant part of the income distribution whose impacts have not yet been adequately studied, at least not from the distributive point of view. This paper suggests a way to find the market value for these services using hedonic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818891
The text presents estimate of the tax incidence, especially the indirect one, on the income of families according to … tax rates are applied. The tax rates are estimated based on a developed methodology that considers the taxes on inputs and … the regressive effect of indirect taxes predominates in the redistributive effect of the tax system as a whole, that is …
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This work assesses the possibilities of including distributive considerations into cost-benefit analysis (CBA), it summarizes the favourable and contrary arguments existing in the literature, as well how it can be done. A survey is also carried out on how the topic is treated by agencies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486130